This article is a sequel to our popular post, Day in the Life of a Product Manager. There are many different flavors of product management, especially since product manager responsibilities depend greatly on the industry, company, business model, and product. Due to this variability, there is a wide range of day-to-day activities, but ultimately a product manager is still responsible ... Read More

If you’re reading this article, congratulations! You’ve studied your behavioral questions, you’ve practiced your case questions, you aced your phone interviews, and you wowed your hiring manager during your on-site interview. You’re now a Product Manager! It’s a big deal, so be sure to take the time to celebrate your accomplishments. As a new product manager, it’s critical to ensure ... Read More

As a product manager, you might work at a product organization that works with remote teams. For example, I’ve worked with software development teams based out of India and China. On top of the typical challenges of product management, remote development poses its own unique set of challenges to navigate. Let’s talk through 1) why remote development can be beneficial, ... Read More

One of the best ways to break into the field of product management is to start as an associate product manager (APM). After all, the associate product manager role is set up as an apprenticeship that leads into a future product manager role. When I first started in product management, I had no idea what associate product managers were, and ... Read More

Members of the PMHQ Slack community regularly host awesome events for product managers to swap tips and learn from one another. In San Francisco, Vinay Melwani (Product Manager at HouseCanary) has organized a monthly morning meetup called AM | PM. Attendees answer a thought-provoking question-of-the-month in a round-robin fashion and reflect on each other’s responses. Below is our summary of ... Read More

In the PMHQ Slack community, we regularly get thought-provoking questions that we feel should be explored in-depth and documented for future reference. We’re starting a new set of Q&A posts called Highlights to dive into these kinds of questions, and enable everyone in the community to revisit the answers and contribute further! “What do you think about creating blended metrics ... Read More

In the PMHQ Slack community, we regularly get thought-provoking questions that we feel should be explored in-depth and documented for future reference. We’re starting a new set of Q&A posts to dive into these kinds of questions, and enable everyone in the community to revisit the answers and contribute further! “How can I be well-organized on JIRA for multiple platform ... Read More

In the PMHQ Slack community, we regularly get thought-provoking questions that we feel should be explored in-depth and documented for future reference. We’re starting a new set of Q&A posts called Highlights to dive into these kinds of questions, and enable everyone in the community to revisit the answers and contribute further! “As I continue to grow into a leader ... Read More

In the PMHQ Slack community, we regularly get thought-provoking questions that we feel should be explored in-depth and documented for future reference. We’re starting a new set of Q&A posts called Highlights to dive into these kinds of questions, and enable everyone in the community to revisit the answers and contribute further! “How do you conduct quarterly product review meetings with ... Read More

During our last post of the PMs & Metrics series, we covered the details of retention rate. In today’s post, we’ll be going over another important metric that PMs should be familiar with – the net promoter score, also known as NPS. For our discussion, let’s break it down into the following sections: Definition: What is the net promoter score? ... Read More